Performance and
Load Testing is increasingly recognised as a vital part of the development
and life cycle of IT products. It can be used to predict system behaviour
before the application is live and additionally identify effects of changes
before implementation.
With the growth in the Internet and Web based
applications the complexity and the need for performance testing has been
increased; since key business services are now available to a much larger
audience and the potential for lost revenue due to performance problems
increased.
Performance and Load testing improves the
quality of the service as delivered to the end user and associated external
customer if appropriate.
The benefits of a comprehensive Performance
and load Testing effort include:-
